Trousers-support.



PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907.

I. D. FELLOWS. TROUSERS SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 22, 1906.

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IRVING D. FELLOWS, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK.

TROUSERS-SUPPORT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 26, 1907.

Application filed January 22, 1906. Serial No. 297,377.

To LLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRVING D. FELLOWS, of Syracuse, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Trousers-Supports, of which the following, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in trousers-supports adapted to be fastened to the bottomsof the legs of the trousers to suspend the latter in an inverted position.

The essential object of this invention is to grip the trousers near the folds and to maintain them inv a substantially flat and extended position under spring tension, thereby performing the function of creasing and shaping the trousers when not in use. In other words, I have sought to produce a trousers-hanger having gripping members which are adjustable toward and from each other and are normally distended or separated under a spring tension, so as to maintain the shape or form of the trousers when not in use.

Other objects and uses will be brought out in the following description.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved trousers-hanger shown as applied to the legs of trousers, the dotted lines showing it as distended. Figs. 2 and 3 are sectional views taken, respectively, on lines 2 2 and 3 3, Fig. 1.. Figs. 4 and 5 are sectional views taken, respectively, on lines 4 4 and 5 5, Fig. 1.

This hanger comprises, essentially, a pair of similar substantially flat sheet-metal bars 1 and 1, clamping members 2 and 2, and a spring 3.

The bars 1 and 1 are arranged face to face flatwise and are slidable lengthwise one upon the other, each bar being provided with a central lengthwise slot 4 and an aperture 5 for receiving the ends of the spring-wire 3, which latter has its intermediate portion twisted or bent into the form of a hook 3.

The spring-arms 3 extend downwardly at the outer sides of the sliding bars 1 and 1 and have their free ends passed through their re spective slots 4 and apertures 5 and bent up at the opposite sides of the bars to hold said bars in sliding connection one with the other and also to secure the spring-arms 3 in operative position.

It is now obvious that the end of each spring-arm 3 passes through and rides in the slot 4 in one bar and is pivoted in the aperture 5 of the other bar, and these spring-arms are tensioned toward each other, thereby operating to automatically extend the hangerbars or rather to slide them outwardly one upon the other, thereby separating the clamps 2.

The outer end of each bar 1 is provided with an opening 5 for receiving and supporting the clamps 2, each of which is provided with a back piece 6 of sheet metal having its lower end formed with a gripping-j aw 7 and its upper end passed through the opening 5 and overturned upon the opposite face of its supporting-bar, thereby allowing it to clamp the bar without rivets or extra fastening means. Otherwise the gripping members or clamps 2 are of ordinary construction, having the movable jaw 8, pivoted at 9 to the back piece 6 and actuated by a suitable spring 10 to force the aws 7 and 8 together.

In operation the outer ends of the bars are taken in the hands of the operator with the thumbs on the movable jaws 8 to open the same, whereupon the bars 1 and 1 may be moved lengthwise of each other against the action of the spring-arms 3 to bring the clamps 2 into proper position to engage the folds of the bottom of the trousers-leg, as seen in Fig. 1, and as soon as the clamps 2 are properly positioned to grip the trousers and released the spring arms 3 operate to distend or slide the bars 1 and l outwardly, thereby maintaining a tension upon the leg of the trousers between the gripping members 2, which tends to not only crease, but to keep the legs of the trousers flat and in their original shape.

One of the important features of my invention is that the same holder answers for both legs of the trousers by inserting the jaws 7 in the opposite folds of one leg and the other jaws 8 in the opposite folds of the other leg, thereby impinging the inner sides of the trousers-legs between the jaws and at the same time distending the legs laterally, so as to bring them in substantially flat parallel planes, as best shown in Fig. 4.

What I claim is 1. A trousers-hanger comprising two comparatively thin flat bars slid able one upon the other and each having a longitudinal slot and an aperture, spring-arms united to form a hook and each having one end inserted through the slot in one of the bars and into the aperture in the other bar, whereby the IIO bars are automatically distended, one upon the other, and gripping devices on the outer ends of the bars.

2. A trousers-hanger comprising two com- 7 5 pratively fiat bars, each slotted longitudinally and provided with an aperture, and a gripping member, spring-arms, each having its lower end passed through the slot in one bar and through the aperture of the other bar for the purpose described.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 26th day of December, 1905.

IRVING D. FELLOWS. WVitnesses:

H. E. CHAsE, G. O. LINCOLN. 

